Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky (7 December 1928-) in an American linguist, philosopher, and socialist thinker.

Biography
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant father and a Belarusian-Jewish immigrant mother. He developed an early interest in anarchism from alternative bookstores in New York City, and he was an exceptionally bright student, going to college at the University of Pennsylvania at the young age of 16. From 1951 to 1955, he was a member of Harvard University's Society of Fellows. He was awarded his doctorate in 1955 after developing the theory of transformational grammar. That year, he began teaching at MIT, and he co-created the theory of universal grammar, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. During the 1960s, he was affiliated with the New Left, and he was an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War; he was arrested multiple times for his activism and was one of Richard Nixon's listed enemies. He also supported unconditional freedom of speech, exposed the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, opposed the War on Terror, and supported the Occupy movement. He remains a leading critic of US foreign policy, neoliberalism, state capitalism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and mainstream news media.